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By United Press : # KENT, O, June 19.— Deputy Sheriffs and policemen drove the

‘last of a mob of 5000 from streets

Mdoned plans to move 40 strike breakers, objects of the mobs Wrath, to a stronger jall at Ravenna. . Policemen, deputies and National ‘Guard officers rescued the 40 prisOners last night from the Black & Decker Tool Co. plant, where strikers and sympathizers had fired on them with revolvers, shotguns and ‘rifles for 12 hours. ~ Fourteen men. were wounded’ by gunfire or gased in the fight. Two Strike breakers, removed from the factory in midafternoon, were in critical condition.

§ Mob Aroused to Fury

Although mob leaders agreed to the removal, the sight of the strike “breakers rolling out of a plant gate dn a truck provoked the strikers to ‘uncontrollable fury. ; _ The mob broke into pursuit, but under the urging of its leaders settled into a parade more awe inspiring than anything ever before seen in this little college town. : + ‘Under direction of Sheriff E. L. Burr and Police Chief 8. C. West, the truck was backed against the

strike breakers pushed inside. : Before the prisoners had been Jammed into the jail’s six inadequate cells, bricks and stones were pelting the walls.. The crowd outside booed and screamed. Strike leaders calmed the mob mood gradually and when word was ‘passed about that the strike break€rs had been charged formally with shooting with intent to wound, the crowd began dispersing. The strike breakers were ordered arraigned at 10 a. m: on charges preferred by leaders of the Machinists Union that closed the Black and Decker plant with a strike May 3.

Strikers said the strike breakers precipitated the riot by firing shotguns and tear gas into a picket line yesterday morning. The generally credited version of the incident was that two truckloads of armed men rolled up to the plate gates before 7 A. m. yesterday with belligerent intentions. A man leaped from the first truck. “If they want it, let 'em have it,” he yelled. Other men swarmed from the trucks brandishing shotguns and tear gas bombs. There were perhaps two dozen: pickets at the gate. Before the lines met, the strikebreakers fired. Seven ‘pickets fell. Strikers wrested guns from the company men and chased them into the plant with their. own wea-

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. The guniire rallied 2000 or more persons in a few minutes. By noon workers from: the rubber factories at Akron swelled the crowd. : Strikers: and sympathizers brought guns from home, established barricades across. the street from. the factory gate and poured a heavy fire into the plant windows. The Black & Decker plant was closed by a strike for a 10 per cent ‘wage increase. The company offered a conditional wage increase ‘Sept. 30 and a 40-hour week, but the union rejected them.

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STRIKES IN BRUSSELS

Walkouts Spread as Resignation of Government Is Demanded.

By United Press . _ BRUSSELS, June 19.—Thousands of white collar workers joined 200,000 striking Belgian industrial ‘workers ay as five days of ture moil neared a climax with increasing demands by political groups for the resignation of Premier Paul Van Zeeland's new government. * Official efforts to negotiate a solu‘tion between, workers and employ= ‘ers were complicated by the spread of the strike to Brussels. * Additional troops were ordered to duty when workers. threatened to ‘abandon the Brussels water works. The strike spread so rapidly in {Brussels that it was complete in the steel works, shoe making industries and among white collar workers.

15 HURT IN. ACCIDENT

;Hit-Run Suspect Held; Victims } Were in Safety Zone. “By United Presse i CLEVELAND, June 19. —Police today arrested Fred Wall; 23, steel ‘worker, as the driver of a hit-and-irun car which crashed into 19 men “standing in a safety zone last night. ‘Fifteen were injured. . Wall was found with a girl com“panion sitting in his car in a garage. te was ordered held without bopd by Prosecutor J. E. Chizek of suburNewburg Heights, where the #

CHURCH IS RANSACKED

Cases Reported Pried Open: Nothing Is Taken.

Burglars ransacked the Christian |

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The besieged plant is shown in this air view, with

the Erie tracks in the background. loads of .nonunion:- ‘workers. crashed

to enter the main gate (1), the pickets opened a

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steady fire on. the factory from behind a barricade (2), their forces being directed from the picket tents (3). The water tower was their special target, several bullets drilling it and starting serious. leaks.

DEMOCRATS SEE

OFFICIAL WEATHER

PLATFORM FEUD

Senator “Clark Predicts Two-Thirds. Rule Will.

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TEMPERATURE June 19, 1935

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_ .BY'LYLE'C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—Democratic leaders predicted abrogation of. the two-thirds: rule today’ and foresaw a possible floor: fight on the | 1936. presidential platform when the national convention meets next week to renominate President Roosevelt and ratify the New. Deal. Senator Bennett C. Clark, slated for chairman of the convention rules’ committe, said he knéw of no serioys ‘opposition to ‘abrogation of the two-thirds rule. TE “1: am -confident it will be vote out next week,” said the Senator; whose fathdr, ‘the ' late Speaker Champ Clark, lost the Democratic. nomination in :1912 to Woodrow | Wilson after holding a majority .on nine ballots. : ; Chairman James A. Farley ~believes, however, that formidable op position has .been revealed. in the past few days to'any rules change. The contest . is essentially. one: between rural ‘and’ urban ‘voters or between the Solid South and the remainder of the Democratic’ Party. Under the ‘two-thirds rule: the South has possessed and on occasion exercised a forceful veto of the majority - for: ‘President. ARNE Platform ‘difficulties are: promised on money." Senator Carter Glass (D.,” Va), 'who ‘wrote ' the’ sound money “plank of, the "1932 platform, is expected again to be a member | of the resolutions committee. .. He will be opposed on: the nioney question: by ‘Sehator’ Elmer ‘Thomas |

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volved,” to campaign: for. re-glec- | .

tion .but ‘he demanded the right to. express‘ His “ views. on: the money" “Ircannot accept’ the: view that a

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KIDNAPER IS HANGED IN OKLAHOMA PRISON

First Person to Die for Violation of Lindbergh Law. By United Press. Za STATE . PRISON," M’ALESTER, Okla, . June 19.~—Arthur: Gooch, 27, whp- kidnaped two « Texas officers and. released. them unharmed after carrying ‘them into Oklahoma, was hanged today, first person to die for violation of the Lindbergh law. Gooch .was declared dead 15 minutes after he drapped through the Pp. til ‘the last. he hoped for executive: clemency. : Mager ign

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CAMPAIGN” KDVISERS NAMED BY LANDON

Charles P. Taft to Play Prominent Role.

By United Press od TOPEKA; Kan. June 19—Gov. Alf M, Landon today named the first members of the staff of expert advisers: who « will: shape his speeches during the campaign. Gov. Landon said Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, son ‘of ‘the late : Presi-

dent, is to arrive today for a series

-of conferences:and will remain with Gov. Landon ‘during most: of the campaign. Mr. Taft, Mr. Landon said, is an authority on municipal government, and probably will help write Mr. Landon’s speeches. Gov. Landon also. announced that Frederick T. Robey, expert economist on the faculty of Columbia fraternity, is to assist in preparation of speeches :and policies. z A third member of Gov. Landon’s staff is E. H. Taylor, associate editor of the Counfry Gentleman, a farm expert.

COL.. BRECKENRIDGE TO AVOID PARLEY

Won't Be Represented Either, Says New Deal Foe.

| By United Press

NEW YORK, June 19.—Col. Henry

Breckinridge, New York lawyer who"

opposed President Roosevelt in the

Democratic primaries in Ohio,

Maryland and Pennsylvania, announced today that ‘he would not attend the Democratic convention ‘next week. : “I have decided not to attend the

convention, nor will I have head-.

quarters or. any- one. representing me there,” he said. ‘He declined. to

give a reason for his decision.

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a= | Guard observers sought to, halt the affray, but the

Sheltered by a low; grassy bank, “outposts” of the _ picket army which besieged the Black & Decker Tool Co. plant at Kent, O., are shown here.- From

state delayed sending troops to the scene, though the situation was beyond control.

strikers and sympathizers kept up a raking fire on the factory, ni the battle to oust strike breakers from the works. Hundreds of machinists ‘were on strike

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(Copyright. 1936, by United Press) : MOSCOW June 19. — From the Mediterranean to the Pacific, 36 scientific expeditions made imports tant and highly successful observa= tions of a total eclipse of the sun today. The moon's shadow, moving at 31 miles: a minute and eclipsing the sun, raced across Greece, Russia and Siberia and disappeared in the waters beyond Japan. » First to report on the long-awai phenomenon was the American exX= pedition representing Cale lege Observatory and the Massachi= setts Institute of Technology at Ak= Bulak, 200 miles northeast of the Caspian Sea. Ts Dr. D. H. Menzel, associate pro= fessor of astronomy at Harvard, ré‘ported that his expedition’s observi= tions were successful: vo © Athens dispatches’ reported that Greek, Polish and Italian astronomers obtained successful motion pictures and still photographs froin their observatories. The skies were clear throughout Greece, 1) near Athens, 3 A British expedition at Capeés Union on the Greek Island of Chios enjoyed: a perfect view. Its leaders were most hopeful of valuable re= sults: from their measurements of the wave lengths of coronal light and observations regarding the composition of luminous gas sur rounding the corona. £5 At Ak-Bulak, the American ase tronomers saw a star appear to the left of the sun as the moon’s disk eclipsed it. ‘The five-pointed star was clearly visible in the silver= white corona. : During the liftle more than two minutes of totality there was not complete darknés. The horizon was visible ‘as a pink-tinted haze. The Ak-Bulak observers reported falling temperatures and the rising of ‘a

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